Fresh snow in parts of China has again disrupted transport and killed livestock, as the country struggles to recover from the worst winter in half a century.
Snow started to blanket the eastern province of Shandong on Sunday and from 10:00 a.m. yesterday, 15 flights had been delayed at the airport in Jinan, the provincial capital. [...]

As deaths mounted over the years, the village’s cemetery has run out of space for any new graves.
Every morning patients crowd into the Donghu village clinic, waiting for their routine infusions. As they lay there being treated, they chat and make small talk, and occasionally, share updates on their conditions with each other.
For years, these [...]

“Take good care of ourselves; prevent AIDS,” reads the slogan on the wall.
Unmarked tombs scatter the mountainside behind Mangbing village; buried there are local drug users who died from AIDS. Considered “unnatural deaths”, they were denied burial in their family cemeteries, and the epitaphs have been left deliberately blank.
Longchuan, the county where [...]

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Objections Against five-billion-dollar project
Environmental concerns have led 14 legislative members from Guangdong province to jointly sign a memorandum calling for the government to delay a five-billion-dollar petrochemical refinery project, the largest local-foreign joint venture, in Nansha. The project site is close to a wetland park with thousands of bird species and mangroves, prompting fears of [...]

By Loujian
Disaster Rehabilitation in Chenzhou, Hunan
The EO has revisited Chenzhou, which was cut off from the outside world for 10 days during the severe snowstorm that hit southern China in late January and early February. The disaster rehabilitation process in Chenzhou may take another two months to complete.
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